Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	driverdevel <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:11:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170829131131.6e11c8f9@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUefXtqv9bFfgrkbu8NZRXeTD6qR-nErf6TCDz4L+OAWw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken.  So, to keep people
> > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> > the kernel in a few releases.  
> 
> (diving into an early boot crash)
> 
> Have you tried running this? ;-)
> 
> irda_init() and net_dev_init() are both subsys_initcall()s.
> But the former now runs before the latter, leading to:
> 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004

Should be fixed by https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/807006/
("[net-next] staging: irda: force to be a kernel module") I guess...

--
Stefano